surgery went fine thanks giles and am home this morning- will try painting in a few days but will take some pics of my acw stuff tomorrow if the light is better along with 2 units of arab spearmen completed in the past week as you can see can only type with 1 hand at the mo so bugger the capitals :)

So long as you can get the wine bottle open it will all be well! Glad to hear the op went well.

i'm sure that teeth and determination will get me into a wine bottle ET had my first ever dose of morphine yesterday- i suspect that it was this rather than the fact that i'd actually woken up again after having a GA that made me feel so euphoric :D - now i can see why some people get to like the stuff :mental:

yes, best wishes for a speedy recovery VB. john

Good luck with the shoulder there, VB.

VB, Hope the full recovery time is short. Today I am basing, The Santo Domingo Vol. Infantry, white companies,circa 1778. The uniform was based on the artwork, page 204, from the Illustrated Encyclopedia of Uniforms of the AWI 1775-83, nice change to have a unit without gaiters. These figures are Howard's, I sculpted them for our New Spain games. Given I have another 48 castings I may well have a regiment painted next year. John

I've seen Morphine do some weird and wonderful things to people. Good luck VB. Despite my other half bringing home a Wii the other day, I've managed to get some painting done. This time 54mm Zulus, just the initial coats so far, but looking good.

VB – speedy recovery. 7 x Perry Beja done, getting much faster at these now and could do 6 in a day easily. 3 x Bicorne ECWs. Lots of detail, paint up with bags of character. I have two more of these nearly done. Next up, but at a very gentle, non commital pace, are more Perry Sudan.

Perry crusaders and 2 off Airfix Vickers light tanks for a desert dabble :)

Ouch - good luck VB, I hope yours turns out better than mine - heres to a quick recovery mate :clap: I`ve decided to step out of my comfort zone and paint for the first time ever some 28mm :hmm: I`m putting my Saharan Groupe Mobile aside for a couple of weeks whilst i get this out of my system. I have (as you do) with this reviewing lark, slowly gathered a fare few 28mm figures, I now have enough Rif figures to build a force for a skirmish game. I don`t know how they`ll come out, it will be an interesting challenge.

Last two Bicorne ECWs done so I have a whole load of figures (18mm Naps and 28mm Sudan and ECW) to varnish which will make a nice break from actual painting.

I'm on Bicorne ECW as well this weekend - 2 Perry FCW Brit riflemen and the first 5 figures of my second ECW regiment, the Earl of Northhampton's (green coats, Royalist).

Hope they go well Giles – I admire your determination. I've really enjoyed doing five Bicornes but I couldn't stick at making up big units of these – the detail is wonderful but time sapping.

Painted a little bit of Coffeyville scenery, pics as soon as the paint is dry.